Very Dark Side of Digital

By now, you've probably heard the story of Tyler Clementi's suicide at Rutgers. How some fellow students web-streamed him in his dorm room. How they've been charged with invasion of privacy. How he jumped from the George Washington Bridge.

Now Tyler's life and circle of acquaintances have become part of the world wide web -- media, bloggers, interested persons -- all battling for scraps of the story.

These cases are hard, like the mom who cyber-bullied a rival of her child until she killed herself. Or the home invasion with cameras by a voyeuristic neighbor in Louisiana.

By law, none of these persons actions can be directly linked to the horrible results -- mostly because the law is dreadfully behind.

The raging battle between the president of the Michigan ASG and an assistant attorney general gives similar pause. Read that one all the way through the three "more story" jumps -- where does political free speech end and personal cyber-bashing begin?

It's a digital world out there kids. Be careful.